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Originally Posted by Ohio
The only thing "extra-Biblical" about the Bereans was their faith. Read the stories again.
Some Jews in Thessalonica, however, were jealous, hardened, unbelieving, stubborn, and evil. Hence they acted identically as the Pharisees did to Jesus. They stirred up loafers in the market, gathered a rowdy crowd, set the city in an uproar, acted violently knowing the Romans would take notice, claimed that these men wanted another king contrary to Caesar. Standard Judaizer modus operandi.
This is not that complicated bro.
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This is tending to what I believe. The difference between the Bereans and the others was not because they held to their own literal interpretation of scripture (sola scriptura) but because they had a God-seeking heart, or otherwise, that caused them to receive Paul's message.
There is an unwritten, false assumption in Christianity that if you give someone a bible without footnotes, without any extra help, they will come to the proper understanding.
Then such people declare themselves to be "Bereans" just because they come up with an interpretation of their own accord, be it literal or allegorical.
But this is not what Sola Scriptura means. We need teachers, and footnotes, to come to a proper understanding.
It is called Sola Scriptura, not SOLO Scriptura.